By Jane Wheare
Jane Wheare matters herself with Virginia Woolf's artistry in "The Voyage Out", "Night and Day" and "The Years", the place Woolf exploited and constructed the "realist" version, discovering in it the main applicable car wherein to place throughout obliquely her personal rules approximately ladies and society.
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H. Lawrence - a hostility which, towards the end of her life, she considered to have been excessive89 - rests upon her dislike of the preaching in his writing: To me Lawrence is airless, confined: I dont want this, I go on saying. And the repetition of one idea. I dont want that either. I dont want 'a philosophy' in the least; I dont believe in other people's reading of riddles. What I enjoy (in the Letters) is the sudden visualisation ... but I get no satisfaction from his explanations of what he sees.
I29 In the essay 'Professions for Women', based on her aforementioned speech to the London/National Society for Women's Service, Woolf outlines the ways in which sex-consciousness affected, or threatened to affect, her own career as a writer. She describes the degree of resolution which she needed as a young reviewer if she were to avoid adopting the traditional 'feminine' role of sympathiser to men, or' Angel in the House', in her writing. ) As a novelist she faced a similar challenge. Wishing to remain as 'unconscious' as possible, she was yet stung into selfconsciousness by the conflict between her own approach to her art and the approach which male critics expected her to take.
Whilst it is true that for Woolf the adjectives 'masculine' and 'feminine' carry their traditional associations, they are definitely not synonymous with 'male' and 'female'. Indeed, as the chapter on Night and Day which follows will suggest, Woolf's ideal individual is 'androgynous', combining in his or her personality both 'masculine' and 'feminine' characteristics. In all her novels, moreover, Woolf presents male and female characters who can be seen as the victims of traditional sexual stereotyping.